Personal Statement

Personal Statement:

Middle-aged and older individuals in our culture face unique challenges and opportunities. Challenges often include cumulative loss and grief, changing roles within society and families, shifting identities, the need to find a new sense of purpose, illness and/or pain, depression, anxiety, PTSD, caregiver stress, and the impacts of internalized and external ageism. With commitment and courage and some guidance, midlife and older individuals can take these challenges and transform them, using a variety of effective healing tools, into an amazing and heartening growth of profound richness and creativity.

About My Practice

Counseling for midlife and older individuals, couples and families. Consultation and support for adult children of aging parents. Consultation on aging-related resources and referrals.

Insurance

Private Pay, Superbill provided

Credit Cards Accepted

American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa

Free Initial Consult

Yes

Offers Teletherapy

Phone

Education

Degrees

Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology. Credentialed Professional Gerontologist by the National Association of Professional Gerontologists. Formerly licensed as EMT in California and Tennessee.

Area of Specialty

Specialites:

Alzheimer's Families

Anxiety

Assertiveness Training

Career Stress and Changes

CAMFT Certified Supervisor

Childhood Trauma

Communication Skills

Crisis Intervention

Depression/Clinical Depression

Elder/Geriatrics/Gerontology

Employment Issues

Families

Grief/Loss Terminally Ill

Issues of Abuse (Trauma)

Individual

Life Transitions/Mid-Life Issues

PsychoEducational

Post Traumatic Stress Disorders

Relationships

Stress

Trauma

Other

Theoretical Orientation

Cognitive-Behavioral

Eclectic (Many Therapies)

Family Systems

Humanistic/Existential

Other, e.g. NLP, EMDR, etc.

Certifications

Certified POLST (Physicians' Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) Trainer in the state of California

Resources

Featured Therapist

Karen L Kleckner, M.A..

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Walnut Creek, CA

At the core of many personal issues lie old messages of your sense of worth. Those messages conveyed to you while growing-up that minimized your self-esteem. The journey inward toward your past can often be frightening and disheartening. By slowly revisiting the wounded part of yourself, old repetitive behaviors can cease to exist. A new sense of kindness toward yourself will begin to emerge. Allow me to travel with you to discover what is buried deep inside of your soul, exploring what keeps you from becoming all that you want to be.